Clark Haaland

Teresa of Avila writes: “ This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. Besides, he so deeply longs for our love that he keeps calling us to come closer. This voice of his is so sweet that the poor soul falls apart in the face of her own inability to instantly do whatever he asks of her.”

1 Question For You

Which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities?

Quote I’m pondering

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”​― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your specifi... See more

“In wicked domains, the rules of the game are often unclear or incomplete, there may or may not be repetitive patterns and they may not be obvious, and feedback is often delayed, inaccurate, or both.”

According to Epstein, this is where generalists thrive. They are able to use their diverse experiences to attack problems in unique ways and see solut... See more

"If you do not actively choose a better way, then society, culture, and the general inertia of life will push you into a worse way. The default is distraction, not improvement."

“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” —Marie Kondo